Interesting Editing From CBS News
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by ecthompson
Senator John McCain didn’t answer Katie Couric’s question on Iraq. As a matter of fact, McCain screwed up the attempt.
Just so that we are clear… Sunni leaders got together in al-Anbar province to stop the violence and push Al Qaeda out of their country. This happened in September and October of 2006. The surge was announced by President Bush in January of 2007. The surge was really targeted to decrease the violence in Baghdad. Although there were some troops transferred to al-Anbar, the decrease in violence was because of the Sunni’s taking control of their own piece of Iraq.
Crooks and Liars has an outstanding post on CBS breaking their own rules.
